Zhang Lingfu

Zhang Lingfu (20 August 1903-16 May 1947) was a general of the Republic of China during the Chinese Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Biography
Zhang Lingfu was born on 20 August 1903 in Xi'an, Shaanxi, Qing Dynasty-era China. In 1924 he graduated the Whampoa Military Academy with Du Yuming, Fan Hanjie, Li Mi, Qiu Qingyuan, Hu Lien, Liu Yuzhang, Guan Linzheng, and Lin Biao, and he served in the National Revolutionary Army. He continued to serve the nationalists after the split between communists and nationalists, and fought in the Chinese Civil War against the communists; he also fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War against the Japanese Empire from 1937 to 1945. In 1939 he was wounded at the Battle of Nanchang in the leg, and he ignored his doctor's advice to rest for a month, fighting at the First Battle of Changsha. He was nicknamed the ¨Lame-Legged General¨ because he was unable to recover from his wounds, and continued to fight the Japanese.

After the Chinese Civil War re-ignited in 1945 after the end of the war with Japan, he crushed the communists at the Battle of Huaiyin-Huaian in August 1946. However, in 1947 he was surrounded by the communits army Ch'en Yi and Su Yu and was killed in action during the Menglianggu Campaign.